It will be used to fund an additional blood culture testing instrument at Pathology Queensland, conduct genomic sequencing to characterise flu strains and increase the number of nurses available to take calls on 13HEALTH during peak periods.

Of the people diagnosed across Queensland in 2019 so far, more than 25,000 contracted influenza A.

About 1680 of those cases required hospitalisation, including 165 who needed treatment in intensive care.